Linotype-machine.



No. 859,647. BATENTED JULY 9-, 1907.

' P.T.D0DGE.

LIN OTYPE MACHINE. APPLIUATION FILED H0113. 1906.

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PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.

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P; T. DODGE.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.13,190fl.

PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.-.

P. T. DODGE.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

APPLIUATION rum) Nov.1a. 1905,

5 SHEETS-$11311! 3.

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PATENTED JULY 9. 1907.

P. '1'. 110mm. LINOTYPE MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13. 1906.

UNITED STATES nf1 NT OFFICE,

PHILIP T. DODGE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR-TO MERGENll-IALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A OURPO'RATION 01*,NEW YORK.

Lmo'rYPE-mAoHmE.

To all whom it may concern:

acters, are stored in magazines, selected and assembled temporarily in line, and presented to a mold in which a printing slug or linotype 'is cast against them,

' the matrices being thereafter returned, through distributing mechanism, to the topof the magazine.

The invention relates more particularly to that form of machine in which a series oi stationary superposed magazines, each containing a font or set of matrices, is arrangedto deliver the matrices to a common raceway atthe front.

I In, machines heretofore designed, each magazine was provided with a series of escapements, one for each channel, to control the delivery of matrices therefrom. These escapement mechanisms were complicated and expensive; 7

It is the aim of my invention to enable a single series 1 of escapements to deliver matrices from any oneof the magazines at will.

To this end, the invention consists broadly in the combination of a series of normally fiicedmagazines with a single series of escapements, so arranged as to be relatively movable in order that the escapements may be brought in operative relation to anyone of the magazines. 7

The advantages of my invention reside mainly in the fact that I am enabled to deliver matrices from a series of magazines by means of a single escapement mechanism,'and the further fact that I am' enabled to make use of a series of stationary magazines, which in turn 'permit the use of a stationary distributing mechanism in operative relation to all the magazines at one time, as shown for examplein Letters Patent of the United States Nos. 640,033 and 799,943, or the application of John R. Rogers, Serial No. 301,665, filed February- My organization is the first, I believe, in which a single series of escapements canbe employed in connection with a series-of magazines to any one or all of which Specification of Letters Patent.

Application m d November 16,1906. SerialNo. 343,213.

Patented Jilly o, 1907,

gardless ofthe chaiacteror font of matrices contained in previous lines.

In the preferred ionn, shown in the accompanying drawings, the inclined magazines are fixed rigidly on the main frame, and the escapcmen't mechanism is movable vertically in such manner that it may be set in operative relation under any one of the magazines at will, the arrangement being such that connection with the keyboard can be maintained under the various adjustments. v

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front-elevation of a machine having my improvement embodied therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, looking from the left. Figs. 2", 3, and 4? are detail views of the operating levers. Figs.i3 and 4 are side views showing the escapement mechanism in different positions inthe course of adjustment. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale, through the-front of the machine, on line 55 of Fig. 1, with the escapements inoperative relation to an upper magazine- Fig. 6 is a diagram illustratingthe finger-key connections for operating the escapeinents. t

Referring to the drawings, A represents themain frame, which maybe of any suitable construction. B, B, duo, represent inclined magazines, oi-which there may be any desired number, fixed in position one aboveanother on top of the main frame.

Each magazine consists, as usual, of two parallel plates grooved or channeled longitudinally in their magazine, one at a time, is effected by a series of ordi nary escapement levers D, one for each channel in the magazine. These levers are centrally pivoted and are provided 4 at opposite ends with pawls d, d, which are projected upward alternately through the under side of the magazine to control the escapement of the matrices.

The series of escapelnents are supported in a bar or frame E, known as the escapement-bar. When released, the matricespass downward from the end of the magazine over a throat-plate F and between vertical .95

partition-plates f thereonJ Continuing their downward course, they pass'thro'ugh the vertically chan "neledfac'e-plate orraceway G, by which they are de livered to the inclined. belt H, which inturn delivers them, as shown in Fig.1, into the assembler I infront of l 00 g the star-wheel .T, by which they are assembled in a compactline.

So far ,as described, the escapement, throat-p1ate, &c., are of theordinary construction and operate in the ordinary manner.

Instead of providing a series of escapements for each figures.

magazine, I connect the escapementdlar l!) firmly to the t,l1roat- )late l and mount them both in such manner as to admit of their being shiftcd at will and placed in operative relation to anyone of the magazines.

lho supporting and adjusting devices may be widely varied. in the form shown in the drawing, the throatplate, which gives support to the cscapement-bar, is provi .lcd at opposite ends with trnnnions f mounted in horizontal slots 7c in a vertically movable yoke K, carried on the upper ends of vertical rods in, mounted to slide upward and downward through guides 11 on the main frame.

When the escapcments are in operative position under either magazine, they are held up firmly in place by vertically swinging arms L, which act hencath the rear corners of the .escapement-bar E on opposite sides of the machine, as shown in the several When the arms L are turned downward, they permit the escapement-har to turn around the trunuionsf as pivots and fall away from the magazine, after which the escapemeut and the throat may be movedforward entirely clear of the magazine, as shown in Fig. 3, the trunnionsfsliding forward along the slots k. After the throq :fnd escapements have been thus retracted, they may be raised or lowered until they are opposite another magazine which is to be brought into use, after which the throat and escapement-bar are moved backward, the escapementbar turned up to its place and confined by arms L, there being a pair of these arms for each magazine For the purpose of governing the forward and backward movements of the throat and escapements to and from ,the magazines, I provide on opposite sides of the machine, vertically slotted yokes M, which receive the trunnions f before referred to. These vertical yokes are jointed at their upper and lower ends to arms in, m, which are in turn pivoted at their rear ends to the frame, so that as they are swung up ward and backward, causing the yokes in turn to impart a like movement to the throat and-escapement mechanism.

The lower arms m are mounted on opposite ends of a rock-shaft m extending through the main frame from side to side, this arrangement maintaining parallelism of the yokes .M and causing themto move in unison.

The upper yoke-supporting arms m are made of angular form and connected by springs m with the main frame, these springs tending to carrythe yokes M upward and rearward so as to aid in holding the escapements and the throat in their operative positions, as shown in Fig. 2. ts the escapement-bar is moved downward and forward away from the magazine, the rear corners of the escapement-bar E, or studs thereon, ride over arms L and upon inclined surfaces n, which aidin guiding the bar, and prevent it from turning over to'an objectionable position during its movement. r The series of arms L which hold the escapement devices upward in their operative positions, are each provided with a secondaryarrn Z, whicharms are connected in series to a vertical controlling-bar l, urged constantly downward by,a spring :2 and lifted by means of a handlever, as hereinafter described, so that the arms L may be operated in unison and caused to act on the escapement-Inu' in any of its several positions. These controlling-ham are in turn connected at their lower ends to crank-arms l on opposite ends of a roclo shaft l extending through the main frame from side to side. (Joe of these cranks l is connected by a descending bar F to an arm L mounted loosely on the pivot of a hand-lever O mounted on the main frame and carrying a stud 0. When the lever is in its normal and upright position, the stud'o, acting beneath the arm 1, causes the latter to lift the bar Z", thereby turning, the arms l upward so that they will hold the escapement bar firmly against that magazine to which. it is for the time being applied.

The yokes M, which control the forward and backward movement of the escapement and throat, are connected by a descending bar in to an arm in, which is also mounted loosely on the axis of the lever O. This lever is provided with a secondstud o in such position that when the lever is turned forward and downward, as shown in Figs. 3a and 4", it will depress the arm in", causing it to draw down the bar in, and

therebypull the yokes M downward and forward so that the throat and escapement are caused to slide forward in the yokes K. The lever O is provided with a latch 0" engaging a notched plate o by which it will be secured in the different positions.

It will be understood that when the lever O is drawn forward, its first effect is to release the escapement and permit it to fall away from the magazinaafter which its second effect is to move the yokes M for ward so that the escapements will be drawn clear of themagazines preparatory to theirv vertical adjustment. After this action, the lever P is operated to raise or lower the escapement, and while the lever is locked in position and the 'escapement supported at the proper level, the lever O is turned upward causing the escapementto be moved backward and upward beneath the magazine, and thereafter causing the escapement to be locked inplace' by the underlying arms L.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the manipu- ;}ation of the two levers will transfer the escaper'nent mechanism and the throat from one magazine to another. I

Referring now to the means for imparting motion to the. horizontal and vertical yokes, and to the arms L, attention is directed particularly to Figs. 2, 2, &c., and Figs. 3 and 4. I

' The horizontal yokes K have their supporting rods is connected to a cross-bar k carried at its middle by a vertical'bar k jointedat its lower-end to an arm fixed on a common pivot with a hand-lever P.

A spring 70 is attached to the main frame and connected to the arm is, as shown, so that it tends to counterbalance and lift the yoke K, the escapement and the throat-plate carried thereby. By moving the lever P upward and downward, the yoke K and the escapement may be set at any required height. This lever is provided with a latch p, arranged to engagea notched locking-bar 1:, whereby it may be held in any required position.

.When the escapement is disconnected from the magazine, the contained matrices would escape were Kid Various mechanisms adapted to secure the matrices in the non-operative magazines are well known in the art, but I recommend the arrangement shown, consisting of a plate Q overlying each magazine and hinged at the rear edge so that it may rise and fall, its forward end being adapted to pass down past the top plate of the magazine far enough to engage over the ends of the foremost matrices and prevent their escape. In order to automatically lift these matrix-retaining plates Q'out of action, they are provided, as shown in Fig 5, with depending arms q in positionto be acted upon and lifted by the escapement-bar when it is raised to its operative position under the magazine. When the escapement-bar is released and permitted to fall, the plates Q are permitted to descend and engage the matrices.

As the throat]? is raised and lowered with the escape ment, it follows that the upper end of the channeled face plate or raceway G must be adjusted accordingly, and I therefore construct this face plate in sectional or telescopic form so that its upper and lower end may be raised and lowered in relation to the lower and stationary portion.

As shown in the drawings, the vertical partitions consist of upper portions g and lower portions g. The upper portions 9 together with the front and back plates g-' and 9 are secured to the yoke K and move upward and downward therewith sons to maintain their operative relations to the throat F. The lower sections g, which overlap and form continuations oi the upper sections, are fixed to the main frame and remain stationary. 7

Each escapement lever 'D is acted upon by a spring d", tending to raise the lower pawl and to depress the upper one. The escapements are held normally in the position shown in Fig. 5 against the stress of the spring J by a link d connected to an angular lever cl pivoted to the throat F. This lever d has its horizontal arm urged constantly downward by a vertical reed or slide cl detachably engaged with a second slide or reed d urged constantly downward by a spring d of sulficient strength to overcome the spring 11 reed rF'will be connected with an ordinary finger-key T, shown in Fig. 6, or with a finger-key mechanism such as is used with the corresponding reeds in linotype machines, so that when the key is actuated, the reed d being, raised, will in turn raise the upper section (1 and permit the spring d to reverse the position of the escapemeut. As soon as the key action ceases, the parts will assume the position shown in Fig. 5.

Inasmuch as the finger-keys are fixed in position in the main frame while the escapement mechanism is raised and lowered, so as to change the distance between them, it is necessary that the connecting reeds shall be variable in length. It is for this reason that each reed is divided into the two sections d and d". The lower section d .is provided at the upper end with a lip d adapted to enter, one at a time. corresponding notches (i formed in the upper section (l. The lip will be engaged in one or the other of the notches according to the height at which the cscapement is fixed, or in other words. according to the magazine to The It is obvious that the two sections may be connected in any suitable manner which will admit of their being separated and reconnected in different relations. is also obvious that any suitable means may be em ployed for guiding and holding the sections. In the construction shown in Fig. 5, a plate S fixed in the main frame serves to guide the lower ends of the sections d and also the upper ends-of sections Theplate is slotted to permit the lower sections d to be retracted and disengaged from the upper sections.

This separation of the lower sections from the upper,

and the reconnection of the parts/is effected by a rocker-plate U mounted in-a horizontal pivot in the main frame and engaging at its upper edge beneath cars on the sections d At one end, this rocker-plate U is provided with a crank-arm to, engaging in a notch in the vertical bars l, heretofore referred tons controlling the dcviccs which lock the escapemcnt to the magazine. When these bars are in their normal and operative position, they hold the rocker-plate U in the position shown in Fig. 5, so as to maintain the engagement between the two sections of the reed, and

when the bars Z are depressed to release the escapemcnt, they rock the plate U backward and disconnect the sections of the reed. thus permitting the upper sections'd to be moved upward and downward with the escapcment, the throat-plate, and the raceway G.

The operation of the mechanism is as follow Assuming the cscapemcnt-bar to be in operative relation to one of the magazines; as shown-in Fig. 2 and in Fig. 5, the operator manipulates in proper sequence the finger-keys T representing the various chain-rims required, thereby causing the reeds d, d torise against the resistance of the spring (1 thus releasing the lovers d and the escapements D so that the latter may be reversed by the action of the springs (1 The action of the escapement permits the matrix to descend from the-position shown in'Fig. 5 until arrested by the lower escapement pawl d. When each finger-key is released, each escapeinent D assumes its original position, retracting the pawl d and pcrmittting the matrix to escape and pass downward through the throat 1* and raceway G to the assembling mechanism, the next matrix in the magazine taking the place of. the one discharged. The deliveryv of matrices is continued until all the characters and spaces reqiiired in one line are assembled. This operation will be continued until a change in the face or style of thetype is required. In order to bring into action a different font of matrices in another magazine, the operator first moves the lever O downward and forward, thereby releasing .the arm 2 and bar I so that the escapenient-supporting arms L may swing down. This action releases the escapement bar and permits it to fall away from the magazine.-

At the same time. the bars Z are caused to opcrai e the rocker-bar U, which disconnects the lower sections (F of the cscapcmcut-actuating reeds from the uppersec tions d". The bar Z at the same time turns the roclc shaft V in the escapement-bar to lock the cscapemcnts These yoke-s in descending, move forward and, acting lOO on the trunnionsf, carry the cscapemcnt-bar and thri'mt lm'ward clear oi thc mag azincs, as shown in Fig. 3. The lover I is next operated and, through the arm is and bar is, it raises or lowers the yoke h, as required,

until the cscapement-barand throat are presented opposite the magazine which tulle brought into use. The lever P is now locked in position to maintain the height of the parts. The vertical movement of the I yokcs K is accompanied by'a corresponding vertical movement of the upper section of the raceway and the upper sections (I of the escapemenuactuating reeds. The lever O is then turned upward; the first effect being to. move the yokes M upward and rearward so as to carry the escapoment-bar beneath the magazine, after which the arms L are turned upward to force the escapemerit-bar. into intimate contact with the magazine and hold it in operative relation thereto.

While I prefer to employ. an escapement mechanism of the. form herein shown, or the same general iorm, it is to be understood that this mechanism in itself is not an essential feature of my invention, and that I may substitute escapementdevices of any other suitable form, such devices being already known in the art in several forms. h i W It will also be understood by the skilled mechanic that the devices for sustaining the escapement mechanism in operative position, and for sustaining it while it is being shifted, may be widely modified Without departing from the scope of my invention.

By the expression cscapement mechanism movable at will and similar expressions employed herein, l'rel'er to escapement mechanisms which are movable bodily so that the one set or series of escapements may bi. located to control the'delivery of matrices from one magazine or another, as required.

Having described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:--

1. In a linoiype.machine, plural fixed magazines in comoperative relation to the selected magazine.

more ilxed nngazincs, an escapemcnt n'ieclmnism and amatrix-gu ling tin-out connected one, and movable'l'roin one mac'zizineto another at. will.

in a. linotypo u'incliiue, plural superposed mm; on escapeinent mechanism and u matrix guiding;

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i'novablo from one magrlzii'ic to another at v ll. and a vertically extensible raceway to conduct the matrices to the assembling moclmnism, said elements combined for joint operation, slilisiuntally as descrbed.

(5.111 combination, plural lined umgazines lying one above another, :1 vertically movable escapement mecham ism applicable to either magazine at wi and vertically movable means for guiding the matrices no that magic zine which is in action to the assembling mechanisnif.

A series of lixeil parallel magazines. and an escapemerit. mechanism operative through the side of any mazinc in advance oi? its delivery end, in combination with means for moving said 'mecluinism from one magazine to another at will, and means for confining the mechanism in operative position.

8. A seiies o1 inclined superposed magazines, an escape- .tion. in a linotype machine, and lil combination, two or.

mcnt mechanism operative in connection with any month zine, moans lorWnovin; said escapomout mechanism horizontally, means for moving,- Llie same vertically, and means for locking the some fast lo one magazine or another at will.

9. A St ies of fixed superposed magazines, an escapement mechanism operative in connection with any magazine, pivotal supports for said mechanism, and means for supporting the pivots and permitting the some to he moved horizontally and verticallyi whereby the presentation of the escapcinent to one magazine or another- :it will is permitted. V

10. In coinbinatioma fixed magazine adapted to perunit the entrance of escapements through its side, and a" movable bar carrying a series of escapements, horizontal trunnions around which said bar may be rocked to move the escapements to and from their operative position, and .movable supports ijor the trunnions.

11. In a linotype machine, fixed superposed magazines, an eseapement mechanism vertically movable from one magazine to another, a stationary finger-key mechanism,

and extensible connections between the finger-keys and the escapement mechanism; whereby the keys are permitted to operate the escapement mechanism in its various positions.

12. In combination, a stationary magazine, an escapemc'nt me'clianismvapplicable to and removable from the magazine at will, and movable supports adapted to suswhereby the movement of the escapement mechanism to and from the magazine, and a rocking movement incident to said movement, are permitted.

14. In combination, a stationary magazine, complete escapement mechanism detachably applicdthereto, means for sustaining the escapement ,mechanism'and transportinp; the some to and from the magazine, and means for locking the escapement mechanism firmly against the magazine in operative position.

15..In combination with a stationary magazine, an escupement mechanism having a swinging and sliding movement iii-relation to the magazine, and devices for controlling the movementpt said mechanism. I

16.111 a linotype machine, and in combination with a stationary magazine, an escapement mechanism and a mutrix-guicling throat rigidly united, and movable supports permitting said members to be moved to and from the magazine,

17. In a linorype machine, a stationary magazine, an escapcment mechanism removable therefrom at will, and means for retaining the matrices within the magazine, said means-arranged to be thrown out 01' action by the escapement mechanism as the latter assumes its operative posi- 18. In combination with a magazine, a movable matrix retaining plate Q, and a removable escapement mechanism arranged to throw the plate out of, action; whereby the matrices are automatically secured when the escapement is removed and automatically released when the escapement is applied.

11). in combination with a linotype magazine, a removable matrixretaining plate Q applied at itsupper side, and arms extending downward from said plate and adapt ed to be operated by means below the magazine.

20. In combination with the fixed magazine, the cooperating escnpement mechanism removable bodily at will from the magazine, and the rocking-arm L for holding the escapenient mechanism in operative relation to the inagm zine.

21. In a linotype machine, and 'in combination with a fixed magazine, an escapement'mechanism and-matrixguiding throat removable from 'the magazine, the escapement-actuating springs d, the links (1 and levers d connected with the removable members, substantially as shown.

transfer the same from one magazine to another,

-22. In a iinotyp'e machine, a series of superposed stationary magazines, an assembling belt H to receive matrices therefrom, and an intermediate raceway G, comprising a lower and stationary section with a series of vertical channels therein, and an upper 'vertieally movable section with corresponding channels therein, and means for guiding andmovingsaid upper section.

23. In a linotype-machine,,the. flxedvertical partitions g in combination with the partitions g, the plates g and 9 all mounted for vertical adjustment.

24. In combination with plural fixed magazines, an escapement mechanism and vertically and horizontally movable yokes supporting said mechanism and serving to and means for confining the escapement in the selected position.

25. In a linotype machine,- and in combinationwith plural magazines, an escapement mechanism movable vertically from one magazine to another, a stationary key,- board and connecting mechanism between the escapement and keyboard, said mechanism including longitudinally adjustable reeds.

26. In a linotype machine, and in combination with'a fixed magazine, removable escapement' mechanism. vertically extensible reeds for operating the escapemcntmechanism, and devices connected with each other for releasing the magazine and. disconnecting the reeds.

27. In combination with plural stationary magazines,

removable escap'ement mechanism, and connected devices for moving the escapement first horizontally and then vertically.

28. In combination with a stationary magazine, co-operating' escapement mechanism, supporting devics adapted to lower the escapement mechanism away from the magazine, and supports to sustain theescapcment mechanism while moving horizontally from under the magazine.

29. In combination with the movable escapement mechanism, th'e yokes K. and M, the hand-lever, and connections whereby the hand-lever moves said yokes alternately.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of November, 1906, in the presence oi? two at- .1 PHILIP TQDODGE,

Witnesses:

F. M. EGGLES'ILON, WALTER Mont-Am). 

